Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Bellvitge University Hospital, University of Barcelona, Hospitalet de Llobregat, carrer Feixa Llarga s/n, 08907, Barcelona, Spain.
Health Group, Neuroscience Program, Perioperative Physiopathology and Pain, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge - IDIBELL, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
BMC Anesthesiol. 2021 Nov 26;21(1):295. doi: 10.1186/s12871-021-01495-3.
During the COVID-19 crisis it was necessary to generate a specific care network and reconvert operating rooms to attend emergency and high-acuity patients undergoing complex surgery. The aim of this study is to classify postoperative complications and mortality and to assess the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic may have had on the results.
this is a non-inferiority retrospective observational study. Two different groups of surgical patients were created: Pre-pandemic COVID and Pandemic COVID. Severity of illness was rated according to the Diagnosis-related Groups (DRG) score. Comparisons were made between groups and between DRG severity score-matched samples. Non-inferiority was set at up to 10 % difference for grade III to V complications according to the Clavien-Dindo classification, and up to 2 % difference in mortality.
A total of 1649 patients in the PreCOVID group and 763 patients in the COVID group were analysed; 371 patients were matched for DRG severity score 3-4 (236 preCOVID and 135 COVID). No differences were found in relation to re-operation (22.5 % vs. 21.5 %) or late admission to critical care unit (5.1 % vs. 4.5 %). Clavien grade III to V complications occurred in 107 patients (45.3 %) in the PreCOVID group and in 56 patients (41.5 %) in the COVID group, and mortality was 12.7 % and 12.6 %, respectively. During the pandemic, 3 % of patients tested positive for Covid-19 on PCR: 12 patients undergoing elective surgery and 11 emergency surgery; there were 5 deaths, 3 of which were due to respiratory failure following Covid-19-induced pneumonia.
Although this study has some limitations, it has shown the non-inferiority of surgical outcomes during the COVID pandemic, and indicates that resuming elective surgery is safe.
Clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT04780594 .
在 COVID-19 危机期间,有必要建立一个特定的护理网络,并将手术室重新改建为紧急和高重症患者的手术室,以收治正在接受复杂手术的患者。本研究的目的是对术后并发症和死亡率进行分类,并评估 COVID-19 大流行可能对结果产生的影响。
这是一项非劣效性回顾性观察研究。创建了两组不同的手术患者:大流行前 COVID 组和大流行 COVID 组。根据诊断相关组(DRG)评分评估疾病严重程度。对两组和 DRG 严重程度匹配样本进行比较。根据 Clavien-Dindo 分类,III 至 V 级并发症的非劣效性设定为 10%以内,死亡率的非劣效性设定为 2%以内。
在 PreCOVID 组中共有 1649 例患者,在 COVID 组中有 763 例患者,对 371 例 DRG 严重程度评分 3-4 的患者进行了匹配(236 例 PreCOVID 和 135 例 COVID)。两组在再次手术(22.5% vs. 21.5%)或重症监护病房迟入住(5.1% vs. 4.5%)方面无差异。PreCOVID 组中有 107 例(45.3%)患者发生 Clavien III 至 V 级并发症,COVID 组中有 56 例(41.5%)患者发生此类并发症,死亡率分别为 12.7%和 12.6%。在大流行期间,3%的患者经 PCR 检测新冠病毒阳性:12 例择期手术患者和 11 例急诊手术患者;有 5 例死亡,其中 3 例死于 COVID-19 引起的肺炎后的呼吸衰竭。
尽管本研究存在一些局限性,但它表明 COVID-19 大流行期间手术结果无差异,表明恢复择期手术是安全的。
Clinicaltrials.gov 标识符:NCT04780594。